Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...function and survive space travel. He has been chosen as the one single sample from all the billions of men that populate the earth to test for the first time man's ability to go out among the stars. To fail this test would be to fail all mankind. Yes-he will go around again and again...
...even such resolute national unity is "simply an indefinite preservation of the balance of terror. We all recognize that this is not enough ... If this sword of annihilation is ever to be removed from its precarious balance over the head of all mankind, some more positive course of action must somehow be found." To Richard Nixon, more positive action lies in extending the rule of law, under which men maintain peace with justice, to govern the course of international conduct...
...wish is that when mankind looks beyond the clouds and dust of our times, it can be said of me that I have done my duty...
Sitting 49 days under a bo tree, Gautama won through to enlightenment and could have vanished into Nirvana, the final release from the wheel of rebirth. It is the essence of the Buddhist tradition of humanity that he refused to abandon mankind to darkness and pain. He labored until he was 80 to show man the way to enlightenment, and then, in the fullness of years, ended his final reincarnation...
...scripts, begins this volume in a spirit of friendly inquiry. But as the toll of human stupidities mounts, his tone seems to get more outraged and frenzied, particularly with the follies committed in the name of romantic love and religion. "Stupidity," he groans, "is as vast as all mankind." Is it curable? Yes, says Tabori gloomily, "provided, of course, that someone wants to be cured...